Citation

European Commission. Eurobarometer 72.3: Public Health Attitudes, Behavior, and Prevention, October 2009. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2013-02-05. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR32441.v1

The Eurobarometer series is a unique cross-national and cross-temporal survey program conducted on behalf of the European Commission. These surveys regularly monitor public opinion in the European Union (EU) member countries and consist of standard modules and special topic modules. The standard modules address attitudes towards European unification, institutions and policies, measurements for general socio-political orientations, as well as respondent and household demographics. The special topic modules address such topics as agriculture, education, natural environment and resources, public health, public safety and crime, and science and technology.

This round of Eurobarometer surveys covers the special topic of public health and includes the following major areas of focus: (1) check-up and prevention, (2) oral health, (3) alcohol habits, (4) smoking habits, (5) organ and blood donation, and (6) sport and physical activity. Questions pertain to medical tests and health exams received in the past 12 months, eating a healthy diet, exercise, visits and access to a dentist, and food and drink consumption. Other questions addressed alcohol consumption within the past 12 months, smoking status and behavior, as well as the knowledge of human organ donation and transplant, and safety of blood transfusions compared to 10 years ago.

Demographic and other background information collected includes age, gender, nationality, marital status, occupation, age when stopped full-time education, household composition, ownership of a fixed or a mobile telephone and other durable goods, difficulties in paying bills, level in society, and Internet use. In addition, country-specific data includes type and size of locality, region of residence, and language of interview (select countries).

European Commission. Eurobarometer 72.3: Public Health Attitudes, Behavior, and Prevention, October 2009. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2013-02-05. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR32441.v1

The original data collection was carried out by TNS Opinion and Social on request of the European Commission between October 2 and 19, 2009.

This collection is being released in two parts. Part 1 contains the original files provided by GESIS and Part 2 the ICPSR-processed collection.

The documentation and/or setup files may contain references to Norway, but Norway was not a participant in this wave of Eurobarometer surveys. This collection contains no data for Norway.

Access to GESIS data and documentation, including the GESIS DOI, for Eurobarometer 72.3 can be found through the GESIS Data Catalogue. Additional information on the Eurobarometer Survey Series and the Eurobarometer data can be found at the GESIS Eurobarometer Web site and ZACAT, respectively.

In all, Eurobarometer 72.3 interviewed 30,292 citizens in the 27 countries of the European Union after the 2004/2007 enlargement (i.e. including the Accession Countries Romania and Bulgaria), in the remaining Candidate Countries (CC) Croatia and Turkey, as well as in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) and among the Turkish Cypriot Community (Northern Cyprus). All respondents were residents in the respective country, nationals and non-nationals but EU-citizens, and aged 15 and over. They were supposed to have sufficient command of one of the respective national language(s) to answer the questionnaire. Separate samples were drawn for Northern Ireland and East Germany.

2018-02-15 The citation of this study may have changed due to the new version control system that has been implemented. The previous citation was:

European Commission. Eurobarometer 72.3: Public Health Attitudes, Behavior, and Prevention, October 2009. ICPSR32441-v1. Cologne, Germany: GESIS/Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributors], 2013-02-05. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR32441.v1

2013-02-05 ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection: